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Government Financial Reporting: A Study of Nested Controversy
Financial Accountability &Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT There are two schools of thought on government financial reporting: one emanating from societal values and accountability to citizens; and one based on investment decisions and a business approach. There are staunch proponents of these different perspectives, which are rooted in economic thought and values.
Sheila Ellwood, Rhoda Brown
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HeliyonThis paper presents a novel two-parameter distribution derived from the Rayleigh distribution, thoroughly investigating its essential mathematical properties.
Ahmed M. Gemeay +2 more
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Ambiguity Aversion, Portfolio Choice, and Life Expectancy
International Economic Review, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper studies how wealth and aging affect portfolio choices in a life‐cycle model with ambiguity aversion. Ambiguity aversion implies wealthier and older agents are endogenously more optimistic about risky asset returns, relative to poorer/younger agents. As life expectancy grows, old agents become even more optimistic, while young agents
Alistair Macaulay, Chenchuan Shi
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BMC CancerBackground Frailty models are extensively utilized in survival analysis to address unobserved heterogeneity among individuals. However, selecting the most robust model for survival prediction, especially in the context of high-dimensional data, continues
Senyefia Bosson-Amedenu +3 more
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RisksCapital investment in longevity science—research targeting the biological processes of aging through interventions like cellular reprogramming, AI-driven drug discovery, and biological age monitoring—may create significant divergence between traditional ...
David M. Dror
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A Conversation With David Bellhouse
International Statistical Review, EarlyView.Summary David Richard Bellhouse was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, on 19 July 1948. He studied actuarial mathematics and statistics at the University of Manitoba (BA, 1970; MA, 1972) and completed his PhD at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, in 1975. After being an Assistant Professor for 1 year at his alma mater, he joined the University of Western ...
Christian Genest
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The Scientific World JournalIntroduction. Multilevel models have gained immense popularity across almost every discipline due to the presence of hierarchy in most data and phenomena.
Killian Asampana Asosega +3 more
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The Bayesian Hidden Markov Chain Modeling of the Ghana COVID-19 Blood Type Infection Distribution
Ratio MathematicaThis work uses the Bayesian Poisson-Hidden Markov Model (BP-HMM) to develop a model that properly describes the blood type distribution among newly diagnosed COVID-19 patients.
Joseph Johnson Kwabina Arhinful +3 more
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Artificial Intelligence in Climate and Sustainable Finance: A Blessing or a Curse?
Journal of Economic Surveys, EarlyView.ABSTRACT While there are concerns regarding the sustainability of artificial intelligence (AI), it is a potential ally in the transition toward a greener future. It offers advanced tools for data analysis; risk modeling; and environmental, social, and governance (ESG) assessment.
Filippo di Pietro +3 more
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Multimodal deep learning approaches for improving polygenic risk scores with imaging data
Scientific ReportsEnhancing the predictive accuracy of polygenic risk scores (PRS) can be achieved by incorporating imaging data, which captures disease-related phenotypic variations.
Hyeongmu Kim, Geon Lee, Wonil Chung
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